“If we eat flour, sugar and clarified butter, each of them separately, we would get neither taste nor nutrition. However, if we mix them together properly, a nice dessert or sweet dish would be prepared which would be not only much tastier, but would also impart nutrition.

Similarly, for a traveler on the path of spirituality a judicious mix of all the three ingredients namely, bhakti (devotion), gyan/jnana (knowledge) and Yoga (union) are needed. Bhakti (devotin) means service. Service to whom? To God. Gyan/Jnana implies knowledge. Knowledge of whom? Of Self or, of God. Yoga means union. Union with whom? With God. Thus, Yoga, Gyan or Bhakti, whatever be talked of or practiced, it has to be with reference to God only. Therefore, Vedant says that the gyan (knowledge) that is expounded by us can be accomplished only through yoga (Union with God), yoga that is inspired by sincerest & sweetest love (for God). You would secure success only if you adopt all three – Gyan, Yoga and Bhakti. Hence, know well about these three means or tools.”

"Past is past, it is already gone! Future is in the womb of uncertainty; we do not know what is going to happen! However, our present is in our hands. The future will be shaped by what we do now, in the present. Those who aspire to have a brighter tomorrow should lead a righteous life and practice meditation. This world and the other world, both would be propitious." -Maharshi Santsevi Paramhans

"We bathe with water of river, pond, well or tap applying soap. This cleanses our body. This is external purity. In addition to sanitizing our body, we should also clean our mind and that happens when we attend Satsang. Then (learning what we are taught in Satsang) when we meditate, our Soul, too, gets cleaned. The Soul is finally freed of all its veils (through Dhyan or meditation)."- Maharshi Santsevi Paramhans

Organs animated by consciousness are seen to be active, whereas those devoid of consciousness can conduct no business. But then, why is that the very same conscious Soul that enlivens and regulates all gross & subtle organs is not itself able to see the God so long as it remains attached with the organs?

in reply to this question sants say that as of now gross (organs) and conscious (Soul) live together like clarified butter lives within milk. That is, just as clarified butter is where milk is, in the same way wherever the mind is there conscious soul, too, is there. However, even though the clarified butter is very much there within the milk, we cannot use the milk to deep fry flour-cakes; while we could, of course, cook sweet rice pudding in milk, it would always take clarified butter, not the clarified butter intermingled with milk, for frying flour-cakes. When we churn the milk to separate out the clarified butter, the latter could then be used for frying. Just the same way, the gross and the conscious get separated as a result of churning that takes place during meditation. All the shells -gross, subtle etc.- fall off the conscious Soul and in this very state of Kaivalya (Pure Consciousness) the God is seen. A sage has very aptly observed,

"As by skillfully churning the milk, comes out the clarified butter.Likewise, by intent meditation, behold the Supreme Master. "